Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions
- Foreword
- About the authors
- Introduction: Re-awakening Australian languages
- John Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch and Michael Walsh
- Part One Language policy and planning
- Introduction: Language policy and planning
- John Hobson
- 1 Closing the policy–practice gap: making Indigenous language policy more than empty rhetoric
- Adriano Truscott and Ian Malcolm
- 2 Why language revitalisation sometimes works
- Michael Walsh
- 3 Our ways of learning in Aboriginal languages
- Tyson Kaawoppa Yunkaporta
- Part Two Language in communities
- Introduction: Language in communities
- Kevin Lowe
- 4 Monitoring the use of Kaurna
- Rob Amery
- 5 Introducing Wiradjuri language in Parkes
- Geoff Anderson
- 6 Going public with language: involving the wider community in language revitalisation
- Knut J. Olawsky
- 7 Ngapartji Ngapartji: Indigenous language in the arts
- Beth Sometimes and Alex Kelly
- 8 Awakening or awareness: are we being honest about the retrieval and revival of Australia’s Aboriginal languages?
- Trevor Stockley
- Part Three Language centres and programs
- Introduction: Language centres and programs
- Michael Walsh
- 9 Maam ngawaala: biindu ngaawa nyanggan bindaayili.
Language centres: keeping language strong
- Anna Ash, Pauline Hooler, Gary Williams and Ken Walker
- 10 Language centre as language revitalisation strategy: a case study from the Pilbara
- Sally Dixon and Eleonora Deak
- 11 Whose language centre is it anyway?
- Kimberley Language Resource Centre
- 12 Revitalisation strategies for Miriwoong
- Knut J. Olawsky
- Part Four Language in education
- Introduction: Language in education
- Susan Poetsch and Kevin Lowe
- 13 Using identical resources to teach young and adult language learners
- Ursula Brown
- 14 Aboriginal languages programs in TAFE NSW: delivery initiatives and strategies
- Jackie Cipollone
- 15 Reclamation process for Dharug in Sydney using song
- Richard Green
- 16 Developing the Dhurga Program at Vincentia High School: the language teacher’s perspective
- Karen Lane
- 17 So you want to work with the community? Principles and strategies for school leaders affecting the establishment of Aboriginal language programs
- Kevin Lowe and Peter Howard
- 18 Establishing a school language program: the Parkes High School experience
- Stephen Maier
- 19 Language revitalisation: community and school programs working together
- Diane McNaboe and Susan Poetsch
- 20 The importance of understanding language ecologies for revitalisation
- Felicity Meakins
- 21 The rebirth of Wergaia: a collaborative effort
- Julie Reid
- 22 Strategies for doing the possible: supporting school Aboriginal language programs in NSW
- Mari Rhydwen
- Part Five Literacy and oracy
- Introduction: Literacy and oracy Michael Walsh
- 23 Questions of fluency in Australian languages revitalisation John Hobson
- 24 Sounds, spelling and learning to read an Aboriginal language Caroline Jones, Paul Chandler and Kevin Lowe
- 25 English influence on the pronunciation of re-awakened Aboriginal languages Nicholas Reid
- Part Six Language and technology
- Introduction: Language and technology
- John Hobson
- 26 Increasing the accessibility of information on the Indigenous languages of Victoria
- Heather Bowe, Julie Reid, and Kathy Lynch
- 27 Flexible IT resources for community language reclamation: using culturally appropriate contexts
- Cat Kutay, George Fisher and Richard Green
- 28 Electronic dictionaries for language reclamation
- Aidan Wilson
- Part Seven Language documentation
- Introduction: Language documentation
- Michael Walsh
- 29 Libraries, languages and linking up
- Faith Baisden
- 30 Yan-nhaŋu language documentation and revitalisation
- Claire Bowern and Bentley James
- 31 A house already lived in
- Christina Eira and Lynnette Solomon-Dent
- 32 Bringing the Language home: the Ngarrindjeri dictionary project
- Mary-Anne Gale and Syd Sparrow
- 33 The development of the Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay & Yuwaalayaay Dictionary
- John Giacon
- 34 Emergency language documentation teams: the Cape York Peninsula experience
- Clair Hill and Patrick McConvell
- Index
- Copyright